how can you claim no price cap but then tells me there's a soft cap....hows that misinformation spreading

>"perpetual lease"

both parties knew at start and never agreeed....next time you sign up for internet service for a yr and want to switch at end of contract to some other provider but cant because provider been good standing with you and continues contract indefinitely...this is what you are doing. its absurd.

>Tenants should be able to continue to live in their home as long as they are in good standing per the lease agreement.

Nope you signed a 1 yr lease...you get 1 yr. Next time sign a 10 yr or longer and pay appropriately and screened for that term

Totally. Travel agencies were once useful, but now it’s pretty ok if they go away with all our added technology.

Take a stroll around Jummel Terrace and visit the Jummel Terrace historic district for a little slice of cobblestone street life.

It’s the oldest house in Manhattan

They should dig up these old pavements if they're converting a road to a walking street.

There is technically no price cap in the Good Cause bill.

There is a cap on rent increases for market-rate units. This soft cap is at either 3% of the previous rent or one-and-a-half times the local rate of inflation. For example: currently, in New York City, the legislation would allow rent hikes up to just under 10% this year.

(Also note that this is not the same thing as rent stabilization; it creates a soft limit on most lease renewals, but landlords would still be able to, e.g., petition to raise rents beyond the inflation limit if they have substantial expenses on a given year.)

As for the "perpetual lease" claim: that's the point. Using a scarier term to describe it doesn't make it any different. Tenants should be able to continue to live in their home as long as they are in good standing per the lease agreement.

If landlords are going to be the barrier between people having and not having homes, the state should step in to ensure that as long as tenants are being good tenants, they should not be forced to leave their communities.

Anyway, my main point in making this post was because a lot of people on this subreddit were commenting on another thread yesterday about how Good Cause would make it impossible to evict tenants who don't pay rent; but that's not the case.

I've seen a road tore up like this, and you could see the old trolley tracks. They didn't even take up the tracks just poured asphalt over em.

Also that’s not technically a tour

Nobody here currently working in civil service is advocating for "hiding" evidence as a solution.

Many in this field view the idea and intent of discovery reforms as much needed. However, what I have identified is a serious and legitimate issue with the reforms. Let me paste this from an earlier comment:

99/100 a prosecutor receives all of the paperwork that they need to actually be able to prosecute the case from the NYPD, that's not an issue.

There are numerous factors and variables at play that lead to absurdly high dismissal rates. First, prosecutors don't only acquire need to acquire all of the discovery material..There aren't enough prosecutors to review hundreds of hours of police body cam footage, police and paperwork and redact witness home addresses so they are protected.

Just look at the Bronx DA walkout. You would need to hire about 5X the amount of prosecutors in each borough to be able to get through all of the paperwork and that's not feasible. The new proposed executive budget bill barely allocates any more funds for discovery. This work can't be pawned off on paralegals either, because each prosecutor must do this themselves on each and every case, because they need to "certify", by law, that they have exercised due diligence in seeking out any and all discovery material.

Second, what is "all paperwork/discovery relating to an arrest"? This opens the door to an infinite number of arguments. Do weather reports count? How about the names and contact information of 20+ unidentified passerbys who are impossible to get because of how populous NYC is? And these people aren't being called in to testify either.

Regardless, because a random person may or may not have seen something, then it's a question of is it discoverable? If a Judge rules that it is, the case is automatically tossed, and this is after 20+ hours were already put into the case and thousands of files and all video files known to exist have been turned over. These are just some of the issues and it's a non-exhaustive list, the reforms create an endless rabbit hole which leads to an inordinate rate of dismissals.

Fair, but the rendering pic only shows one room. Additionally, id think that train travel has changed quite a bit in the last 60 years. It uses to be the way one got to different cities, now Penn is mostly serving commuters. Amtrak does have a sitting area.

"Life after Death" was right there as a title and the writer didn't use it??

classy rich new york guy move...

I have a theory that much of current American capitalism is finding ways to shift costs(including labor and time) to someone else. I would say current crisis has been brewing partly because employers were able to get away with low salaries and benefits for a long time. The resulting consequences of people being priced out causing homelessness was shifted to tax payers to pay for homeless shelters. NYC politicians talk a lot about affordable housing but ultimately fail to enact anything and keep leaning on private sector solutions because they're backed by real estate industry yet propped up by property tax revenue. Unfortunately in this musical chairs of shifting responsibility and costs it's hard to see a solution. If govt services collapse the govt might resort to outsourcing complete depts

Try telling the Munsters & Susies up here that. Ft. Tryon is like a retirement home-lite bitch fest now on account of the construction, whereas before when they needed to drive their Subarus up to their 2nd homes in the HV, they were complaining that someone needed to fix the road 🤷‍♂️

There are more effective ways to reduce speeding that don't make the roadway cumbersome for wheelchairs, skaters, etc.

Ya you also ignoring the price cap and perpetual lease. The market unit owner and tenant signed lease for finite time, it ended but somehow they deserve perpetual lease at cap prices. If owner knew that was the case from start, the price and screening would have been different.

Owners are simply asking to honor the contract length..,.which this bill ignores and violate. Its not eviction if the lease is up aka the good reason...gasp since you agreed to it the first place but now twisting as if not a good reason

Honestly its dolts like you who can't see the entire forest and why this bill will be terrible for future renters. This bill if pass will backfire terribly

• They do not perform any MetroCard transactions anymore.

• The stroller issue could be solved by installing an OMNY and MetroCard reader at the gate, or by installing ADA compliant turnstiles like every other sane country has done.

• The blue MTA help points can be used for directions.

I’m not attacking you or saying you’re wrong or anything, but every conceivable function that station agents perform can be replaced by more efficient, usable, and cheaper alternatives.

That's the site of the original Tour de France.

Maybe prosecutors should deal with getting defendants they are owed faster by asking for more funds and staff from the state, rather than suggesting the only way they can win is to hide evidence.

Of course, the Post and other right wing rags would never suggest that.

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I don't think so. That part of Washington Heights wasn't settled until the 1920's if I remember correctly.

Want to see real cobblestone? Go to Redhook. It's enough to make any car driver rage

Yup! Right on Broadway & E 8th

Not the board. The legislature. The governor, especially. Kathy needs to squirm a bit.

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We should do a lot of things if we had the money for it.